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Tube, Bronchial (W/Wo Connector)

Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

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openFDA event book Tube, Bronchial LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#445 of 1000 · 2,398 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 2,398 reports
  • RANK #445 of 1000
  • DEATH 5 death-typed
  • INJ 167 injury-typed
  • MALF 2,222 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2015: 312
  • PHOTO Stylet For Catheter

Nearest event-volume peer: Stylet For Catheter, Gastro-Urology (0 report gap)

Tube, Bronchial (W/Wo Connector) sits #445 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,398 MAUDE reports spanning 1992–2026. Rank counts report volume, not confirmed device fault. Event_type Death / Injury / Malfunction are one code per report — not the same population as patient-outcome rows ( methodology). Read with this device → · Lead manufacturer → · Similar-volume device →

Event-type mix vs corpus

Shares of FDA event_type codes on this device type, compared with the mean across 1,000 device types that have ≥100 MAUDE reports. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.2% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.3 pp)
  • INJ 7.0% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-23.5 pp)
  • MALF 92.7% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+28.2 pp)

Lead product-problem code Use of Device Problem is 24% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer TELEFLEX MEDICAL accounts for 54% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 56% of location-tagged rows .

Tube, Bronchial in the event-volume neighbourhood

FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers

reports

What this shows Tube, Bronchial (W/Wo Connector) carries 2,398 MAUDE reports, ranked #445 of 1000.

Source FDA MAUDE via openFDA, aggregated by PlainHospital As of August 2026

Event Types

Malfunction 2,222 (92.7%)
Injury 167 (7.0%)
Death 5 (0.2%)
3 (0.1%)
Other 1 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.

2,169 (90.6%)
Required Intervention 172 (7.2%)
Other 22 (0.9%)
R 10 (0.4%)
Hospitalization 5 (0.2%)
H 3 (0.1%)
L 3 (0.1%)
Death 3 (0.1%)
Life Threatening 3 (0.1%)
D 2 (0.1%)
O 2 (0.1%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Use of Device Problem 369
Gas/Air Leak 356
Deflation Problem 268
Inflation Problem 124
Leak/Splash 119
Material Split, Cut or Torn 73
Defective Component 34
Break 33
Human-Device Interface Problem 20
Material Separation 18
Partial Blockage 18
Fluid/Blood Leak 14
Insufficient Information 14
Material Integrity Problem 14
Material Rupture 14
Detachment of Device or Device Component 13
Air Leak 12
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 12
Obstruction of Flow 11
Disconnection 10

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 3
94
1994: 2
97
1997: 4
00
2000: 2
01
2001: 1
02
2002: 1
03
2003: 2
04
2004: 2
06
2006: 2
07
2007: 1
09
2009: 2
10
2010: 24
11
2011: 29
12
2012: 89
13
2013: 116
14
2014: 228
15
2015: 312
16
2016: 226
17
2017: 190
18
2018: 124
19
2019: 122
20
2020: 91
21
2021: 110
22
2022: 140
23
2023: 162
24
2024: 172
25
2025: 207
26
2026: 34

Related Entities for Tube, Bronchial (W/Wo Connector)

Top Manufacturers

TELEFLEX MEDICAL 714
COVIDIEN 606

Event Locations

1,340 (55.9%)
I 1,039 (43.3%)
HOSPITAL 16 (0.7%)
NO INFORMATION 2 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 1 (0.0%)

Compare TELEFLEX MEDICAL vs COVIDIEN →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Tube, Bronchial, both floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (2,398 here).

Stylet For Catheter, Gastro-Urology 2,398 System, Imaging, Pulsed Doppler, Ultrasonic 2,413 Mattress 2,417 Staple, Fixation, Bone 2,423

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (5 here), distinct from the volume row.

Anesthesia Conduction Kit 5 Antigens, All Groups, Streptococcus Spp. 5 Apparatus, Exhaust, Surgical 5 Bit, Drill 5

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Tube, Bronchial are informational only and are not clinical advice. Report codes do not prove device causation. Consult a qualified clinician before acting on this data.

Every figure on PlainHospital is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Event-type mix on this page is computed from FDA MAUDE codes for Tube, Bronchial; corpus means use device types with ≥100 reports. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.